My Wizards' Workshop! is a development and test site, therefore it is constantly undergoing change and it's always evolving. New ideas and features are being added and tested almost daily. The good stuff is kept, the bad is tossed out. You never know what you may find here. Feel free to explore! If you see something and you like it, let me know. If you don't like something, let me know about that too. It's your feedback that helps me keep improving my web site!
Sometimes, you may visit My Wizards' Workshop! and think that nothing has changed on the site. Believe me, there is always a ton of things that are being worked on and tested. Lately though, some of the developers have asked that their projects be kept private (sorry), and I am forced to keep them under wraps and hidden from view, only displaying and allowing access to them, to those that have been given the proper security authorization. (As the web master I still get to see them and some of them are very interesting!) Below, I've created a short summery of some of the hardware and software that has been either added or upgraded and doesn't have to be kept secret.
Thought For The Day - Daily motivational quotes offer perfect inspiration and may be
just the push you need to help you succeed each day. Thought provoking quotes, sayings, and
proverbs from around the globe by all sorts of famous people.
Bowling League Scores - Individual bowling league scores have been setup for the
Wednesday Nite Triples team The Wizards current season and get updated each week.
Expanded Sports Coverage - Includes more local team coverage: Baseball (Yankees,
Mets, Boulders), Hockey (Islanders, Rangers, Devils),
Basketball (Knicks, Nets) as well
as the entire league schedules for NFL Football, MLS Soccer and the new UFL Football
league.
Expanded News Coverage - News Across America now includes over 1,200 links to
newspapers that cover all 50 states along with the District of Columbia. And there's more
coming each week. If there's a paper that you would like added - just let me know!
Business Card Advertisers - Free advertising for local businesses, shops, and
friends that provide services above and beyond what one would expect, and have given me a
business card, with quick links to their web sites if available.
Music Collections - The new Albums & Singles music collections have been made
available. The album collection has more than 2150 albums, and the singles collection has
more than 5590 songs. Everything from clasic rock, jazz, blues, oldies, and even some rap
music. And the collections keep growing larger each week so check back often see the latest
new additions!
WAN Network Connectivity - A new Network Modem was provided to us by Cablevision.
After it was installed and tested for performance it was found that there was an overall
increase by almost fifty percent in both the upload and download transmission speeds. (And
the best part - it didn't cost me a single red cent!)
UPS Systems - New UPS systems with expanded capibilities were purchased and
installed in May to protect my systems, allow network connectivity, and extend system
availability during power interuptions.
Computer Systems - A whole bunch of computers were aquired and evaluated for their
performance. System upgrades/replacements were scheduled and has since been completed.
Storage Systems - Additional network disk drives were purchased and installed to
provide additional online storage, increase systems performance, and enhance backup
facilities.
Offsite Facility - Several offsite facilities were evaluated during the past year.
An offsite facility was selected and the hardware systems were scheduled to be installed.
But due to the Corona virus lockdowns, which caused lots of scheduling conflicts, they
are now scheduled (hopefully) to be installed some time in the latter part of 2022.
Security - Updates to our security software have been added to provide enhanced user and password protection and allow enhanced functionality for the web site. Additional online facilities for the support of our security system were designed and installed.
